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Thursday, November 12, 2015

A call for unity and expressing outrage - Isi Leibler

by Isi Leibler

Moral relativism has paved the way for a
realpolitik in the democratic world, which no longer relates to concepts
like good and evil.

The world is experiencing a clash of civilizations
with satanic forces seeking to revert to the Dark Ages. In this context,
the behavior of the Palestinians has now descended to such barbaric
depths that in a rational world, Israel should have the unequivocal
support of all civilized people.

However, hypocritical global leaders, devoid of
moral compass, have abandoned us. They relate to Israel and those
seeking its destruction with moral equivalence and opportunistically
collaborate with rogue states. Moral relativism has paved the way for a
realpolitik in the democratic world, which no longer relates to concepts
like good and evil.
George Orwell undoubtedly could have devoted another
book to the doublespeak adopted in relation to Israel. Global leaders
are not merely indifferent to the fact that innocent Israeli citizens
are targeted for assassination by youngsters transformed into frenzied
religious lunatics by their leaders. They even condemn Israelis for
defending themselves.

Western leaders refuse to recognize, that in the
same way the Nazis successfully transformed Germany into a society
endorsing genocide, Palestinian leaders have inculcated children, from
kindergarten onward, with the notion that being killed in the process of
murdering Jews is the highest form of religious martyrdom.

Our “peace partner,” Palestinian Authority President
Mahmoud Abbas, “blesses the blood” shed in killing Jews, glorifies
debased murderers, and provides millions of dollars of funds received
from foreign governments as monthly salaries to those murderers in jail
and pensions for their families. The bloodlust generated by frenzied
lies about Jews threatening to destroy Al-Aqsa mosque and substituting
it with a Jewish Temple is promoted through the mosques, schools, media
and Facebook and via other social media.

Yet whilst mayhem prevails as millions of people
have been displaced from their homes and hundreds of thousands have been
butchered, the European Union carries a resolution effectively paving
the way for sanctions against Israeli products produced over the Green
Line. It is a shocking reflection on the cynicism of Europeans, whose
soil was drenched with Jewish blood during the Holocaust, that they so
cravenly betray Israel, the only democratic state in the Middle East —
an oasis of tranquility in a sea of barbarism — which is surrounded by
neighbors openly baying for its destruction.

Even the president of the United States, our
purported ally, contributes toward this poison by calling on Prime
Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Chairman Mahmoud Abbas to reduce the
incitement.

Israel is on the front lines and must seek more
effective means of publicizing the fact that the current Palestinian
Authority is a criminal regime that promotes a culture of death — a
barbaric society whose feral hatred of Jews and Israel is on a par with
Hamas and ISIS.
We must repeat again and again that the Arab-Israel
conflict is not a dispute between two peoples over land. The reality is
that the Palestinian Authority (no less than Hamas) adamantly refuses to
recognize Jewish sovereignty, as evidenced when both Yasser Arafat and
Abbas even declined to make counteroffers when Prime Minister Ehud Barak
and subsequently Prime Minister Ehud Olmert offered 97% of the
territories previously occupied by the Jordanians.

In order to make the world understand, Israel must
focus on two issues — national unity and a far more aggressive
presentation of our narrative and exposure of the criminal nature of our
adversaries.

National unity is crucial and will immensely
strengthen us. It is scandalous that in the current circumstances, our
government operates on the basis of a hairline majority of one,
virtually neutralizing any flexibility of the prime minister.

The fact is that today there is a genuine consensus
among Israeli Jews, the vast majority of whom believe that to annex the
territories and absorb millions of additional Arabs would result in a
binational state and the end of the Zionist dream. In addition, with the
absence of a peace treaty and security, there is also firm opposition
to ceding additional territories to the corrupt Palestinian Authority
whose hatred of Israel is indistinguishable from Hamas, which in the
absence of the IDF, would in all likelihood have assumed control over
territories.

Even the prominent left-wing ideologue Professor
Shlomo Avineri and one of the key architects of the Oslo Accords, Dr.
Yossi Beilin, admit that those proposals no longer apply as the PA’s
present leadership has proven to be utterly opposed to the existence of a
sovereign Jewish state. There is also a broad consensus concerning the
disastrous agreement consummated by the Obama administration with Iran.

Under these circumstances, the Zionist political
parties should unite to face the challenges. Zionist Union Chairman
Isaac Herzog, Yesh Atid head Yair Lapid and Yisrael Beytenu chief
Avigdor Lieberman all share ambitions to become prime minister. But now,
if they share any concern for the national interest, they should
temporarily set aside their personal ambitions and unite. Likewise,
Prime Minister Netanyahu should make every effort to enable them to join
his government with dignity.

Needless to say, Herzog, Lapid and Lieberman would
actually enhance their status with voters if they demonstrated a
willingness to act in the national interest during these critical times
instead of behaving like petty feuding politicians.

A unity government would curtail the continuous
calls on Netanyahu to be more accommodating when he has already reached a
total stalemate with the duplicitous Abbas. No other opposition leader
has a realistic formula for moving beyond Netanyahu’s current policies
until such time as Palestinian leaders arise who are genuinely committed
to coexistence. This is currently not on the horizon. Indeed, Netanyahu
has ceded far beyond what the late Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin had
repeatedly personally pledged were red lines beyond which he would not
cross.

A unity government would largely neutralize the
poisonous propaganda emanating from delusional Israeli and Jewish
leftists who, despite being fringe elements, inflict tremendous damage
on Israel’s standing by dismissing all of Netanyahu’s policies as
emanating from the extreme Right.

Such a government would also unite Jews in the
Diaspora, many of whom are reeling under the pressures they face and
would be reassured that their support for Israel is not for a narrow
government or right-wing group, but effectively endorses the consensual
will of the nation.

The second component is a need for the government to
revolutionize foreign policy and cooperate with Jews and friends of
Israel to promote Israel’s narrative, which is distorted by Arabs and
extreme leftist propaganda.

The Palestinians’ cult of death and their ongoing
determination to destroy Israel must be exposed; they are the underlying
reasons why negotiations are doomed to fail in the foreseeable future,
despite the fact that Israel has undertaken to conduct talks without
preconditions.

We must also repeatedly expose the hypocrisy and double standards displayed by Western nations.

Many may argue that it is not worth the effort
because the power of the Arab bloc, anti-Semitism, and the prevailing
cynical and immoral approach adopted by most Western countries in
relation to foreign policy will transcend truth and morality. Yet
ultimately truth is invariably vindicated and we must exert major
efforts to prevent our narrative from being distorted and ensure that
our own future generations retain their national pride and appreciate
the morality of our cause.

Let us be clear: Israel is confronted by painful
challenges. But don’t be influenced by the prophets of doom. Life goes
on in Israel. We have faced far greater threats in the past and overcome
them. Terrorism dates back long before the state was even established
and has never ceased.

We must also retain a sense of perspective. While
each casualty is a human tragedy that impacts on the entire nation, far
more Israelis are killed in road accidents than by terror attacks. It
is also important to be assured that Israel has never been as strong as
it is today and has the capacity of defending itself and deterring the
combined forces of all the barbarians seeking our destruction.